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Original citation: Laezza, Antonio, Casillo, Angela, Cosconati, Sandro, Biggs, Caroline I., Fabozzi, Antonio, Paduano, Luigi, Iadonisi, Alfonso, Novellino, Ettore, Gibson, Matthew I., Randazzo, Antonio, Corsaro, Maria M. and Bedini, Emiliano. (2017) Decoration of chondroitin polysaccharide with threonine : synthesis, conformational study, and ice-recrystallization inhibition activity. Biomacromolecules.
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Decoration of chondroitin polysaccharide with threonine:
synthesis, conformational study and ice-recrystallization inhibition activity
Antonio Laezza,† Angela Casillo,† Sandro Cosconati,‡ Caroline I. Biggs,§ Antonio Fabozzi,† Luigi Paduano,† Alfonso
Iadonisi,† Ettore Novellino,# Matthew I. Gibson,§,▼ Antonio Randazzo,# Maria M. Corsaro,† Emiliano Bedini,†,*
†Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II,
Complesso Universitario Monte S.Angelo, via Cintia 4, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
‡DiSTABiF, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Vivaldi 43, I-81100 Caserta, Italy
§Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
#Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, via Montesano 49, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
▼Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
Abstract
Several threonine (Thr)- and/or alanine (Ala)-rich antifreeze glycoproteins (AFGPs) and polysaccharides act in nature as
ice recrystallization inhibitors. Among them, the Thr-decorated capsular polysaccharide (CPS) from the cold-adapted
Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H bacterium was recently investigated for its cryoprotectant activity. A semi-synthetic
mimic thereof was here prepared from microbial sourced chondroitin through a four step strategy, involving a partial
protection of the chondroitin polysaccharide as a key step for gaining an unprecedented quantitative amidation of its
glucuronic acid units. In-depth NMR and computational analysis suggested a fairly linear conformation for the semi-
synthetic polysaccharide, for which the antifreeze activity by a quantitative ice recrystallization inhibition assay was
measured. We compared the structure-activity relationships for the Thr-derivatized chondroitin and the natural Thr-
decorated CPS from C. psychrerythraea.
Keywords: chondroitin, semi-synthesis, threonine, antifreeze, conformational study
Introduction
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are polysaccharides ubiquitously distributed in the animal kingdom, playing several
biological functions. From a structural point of view, they often consist of a linear backbone of variously sulfated
* Corresponding author: [email protected] (E. Bedini), Tel.: +39(0)81674153, Fax: +39(0)81674393.
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disaccharide repeating units, with alternating uronic acid and N-acetyl-hexosamine residues. One of the most widespread
GAGs is chondroitin sulfate (CS), that is widely distributed in mammals and invertebrates, as well as in some bacteria. It
is a polysaccharide with a molecular weight usually slightly lower than 50 kDa, consisting of glucuronic acid (GlcA) and
N-acetyl-galactosamine (GalNAc) units linked together through alternating b-1→3 and b-1→4 glycosidic bonds and
decorated with sulfate groups to a various extent (Figure 1a).1 Unsulfated variants of CS have been also found in nature.
They are produced by some bacteria as exopolysaccharides.2,3
CS is commonly used for the therapy of tibiofibular osteoarthritis of the knee. It is also employed for the treatment of
burns and as a component of viscoelastic solutions used as surgical aids. Many other pharmacological and biomedical
applications are currently under development,4 with a particular focus on the field of drug delivery and tissue engineering.
In the last two decades many works appearing in the literature have reported chemical and chemo-enzymatic
derivatization of CS or unsulfated chondroitin, aiming to access modified polysaccharide structure with tailored
biomedical applications.5-10 Among the derivatization reactions, carboxyl group modification with amines or hydrazides
is very common. Indeed, CS polysaccharide has been coupled through amide linkages with several small biomolecules –
tyramine,11,12 histamine,13 biotin,14 cholesterol15 among others – as well as biomacromolecules, such as tissue proteins
and hyaluronic acid.16-19 Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge no systematic study of how the activation conditions
of the carboxylic acid of chondroitin or CS influence the degree of substitution (DS) has been done yet. Furthermore,
diverse DS for amidation of such polysaccharides has been obtained, with values ranging from 0.01 to 0.88.10
Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H is a strictly psychrophilic Gram-negative bacterium isolated in Arctic marine sediments.20
It has been reported that bacterial adaptation to low temperatures can be driven by several different mechanisms, including
the production of antifreeze (glyco)proteins and small molecules as cryoprotectants.21 Very recently, it has been found
that C. psychrerythraea 34H uses an alternative, unprecedented mechanism, producing polysaccharides with ice
recrystallization inhibition (IRI) activity.22,23 One of them, a capsular polysaccharide (CPS), possesses a linear
tetrasaccharide repeating unit with alternating N-acetyl-hexosamines – GalNAc and N-acetyl-glucosamine (GlcNAc) –
and uronic acids [GlcA and galacturonic acid (GalA)] in a GAG-like fashion. A threonine (Thr) amide decoration on
carboxylic acid of GalA units complete the structure (Figure 1b). It was suggested to confer the cryoprotectant activity to
the CPS,22 in resemblance with typical Thr-rich antifreeze (glyco)proteins.24
Since antifreeze molecules can find applications as cell, tissue, organ and frozen food cryopreservatives as well as
cryosurgical aids, the design of ice recrystallization inhibitors that mimic the structure of natural products with antifreeze
activity is an emerging field in synthetic organic and polymer chemistry. To this aim, both small molecules and
macromolecules were obtained through total synthetic approaches and tested for antifreeze activity.25-27 The GAG-like
structure of the CPS from C. psychrerythraea 34H suggested us to obtain an unprecedented chondroitin polysaccharide
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with a Thr amide decoration on GlcA units. Actually, unsulfated chondroitin polysaccharide has been demonstrated to
have no IRI activity.22 Therefore, it would be interesting to test whether a decoration of the chondroitin backbone with
Thr amide moieties is able to elicit IRI activity or not. A semi-synthetic approach could be employed for the production
of Thr-decorated chondroitin, taking advantage of the high availability of pure unsulfated chondroitin from the fed-batch
fermentation of Escherichia coli K4 followed by a suitable downstream purification.28 This polysaccharide has been
previously employed as starting material for the obtainment of non-animal sourced CS and fucosylated CS
polysaccharides through tailored semi-synthetic strategies.29-33 Here a study of chondroitin carboxylic acid activation
conditions was done in order to achieve the highest possible DS of Thr decoration of the polysaccharide backbone, then
followed by evaluation of the 3D-structure and IRI activity of the obtained semi-synthetic polymer.
Figure 1: Repeating units of (a) CS and unsulfated chondroitin, and (b) CPS from C. psychrerythraea 34H
Experimental
General methods
Commercial grade reagents and solvents were used without further purification, except where else specified. The term
“pure water” refers to water purified by a Millipore Milli-Q Gradient system (≥18.2 Ω mean resistivity). Phosphate-
buffered saline (PBS) solution was prepared using preformulated tablets in 200 mL of pure water to give [NaCl] = 0.138
M, [KCl] = 0.0027 M, and pH 7.4. Centrifugations were performed with an Eppendorf Centrifuge 5804R instrument at
4°C (4600 g, 10 min). Dialyses were conducted on Spectra/Por 3.5 kDa cut-off membranes at 4°C. Size-exclusion
chromatographies were performed on a Bio-Gel P2 column (0.75 x 67.5 cm, Bio-Rad) using 50 mM ammonium
bicarbonate as a buffer at a flow rate of 0.2 mL/min. The column eluates were monitored continuously with a Knauer K-
2310 refractive index refractometer. Lyophilisation was performed with a 5Pascal Lio 5P 4K freeze dryer. NMR spectra
were recorded on a Bruker DRX-600 (1H: 600 MHz, 13C: 150 MHz) instrument equipped with a cryo probe, in D2O
(acetone as internal standard, 1H: (CH3)2CO at d 2.22 ppm; 13C:(CH3)2CO at d 31.5 ppm) or DMSO-d6 (1H: CHD2SOCD3
at d 2.49 ppm; 13C: CD3SOCD3 at d 39.5 ppm). Gradient-selected COSY, phase sensitive NOESY, and TOCSY
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experiments were performed using spectral widths of 6000 Hz in both dimensions, using data sets of 4096 × 256 points.
Quadrature indirect dimensions were achieved through States-TPPI method; spectra were processed applying an unshifted
Qsine function to both dimensions and data matrix was zero-filled by factor of 2 before Fourier transformation. The
mixing time for TOCSY experiment was 120 ms. NOESY experiments were performed at mixing times of 50, 70, 100,
150, and 200 ms, in order to identify genuine NOEs effects. A NOESY experiment with mixing time of 150 ms was
performed in H2O/D2O 9:1 too. HSQC-DEPT experiments were measured in the 1H-detected mode via single quantum
coherence with proton decoupling in the 13C domain, using data sets of 2048 × 256 points and typically 32 increments.
Preparation of polysaccharide 2a
Chondroitin sodium salt (22.0 mg, 54.9 µmol) – obtained from fed-batch fermentation of Escherichia coli K4 followed
by downstream purification steps as already described in literature28 – was dissolved in pure water (1.0 mL) and passed
through a short Dowex 50 WX8 column (H+ form, 20-50 mesh, approx. 5 cm3). Elution with pure water was continued
until pH of the eluate was neutral. Freeze-drying of the collected eluate gave chondroitin (20.0 mg, 52.8 µmol), that was
suspended in pure water (4.0 mL) and treated with EDC (22.7 mg, 0.146 mmol) and NHS (8.5 mg, 73.9 µmol). After 40
min stirring at rt, MES (40.0 mg, 0.204 mmol; pH 6) and then Thr methyl ester 1 (35.7 mg, 0.264 mmol) were added and
stirring was continued overnight. Few drops of 1M NaOH solution were then added to adjust pH to 12. After 6 hours
stirring at rt, the solution was then neutralized with 1M HCl. Dialysis and subsequent freeze-drying afforded
polysaccharide 2a (17.2 mg) as a white waxy solid.
Preparation of polysaccharides 2b and 2c
Chondroitin TBA salt (31.8 mg, 51.3 µmol) – obtained from chondroitin sodium salt according to a known procedure34 –
was suspended in DMF (2.1 mL) that was freshly dried over activated 4Å molecular sieves. The mixture was heated to
80°C and stirred for 3 hours, after that a clear solution was obtained. After cooling to rt, in the case of 2b the solution was
treated with 0.27M solutions of pyBOP® and HOBt in freshly dried DMF (376 µL each, 0.102 mmol), then with a 0.48M
solution of 1 in freshly dried DMF (300 µL, 0.144 mmol), and finally with DIPEA (88.8 µL, 0.510 mmol) that was freshly
dried over activated 4Å molecular sieves. Alternatively, in the case of 2c, the solution was treated with a 0.44M solution
of TBTU in freshly dried DMF (229 µL, 0.101 mmol), then with a 0.48M solution of 1 in freshly dried DMF (300 µL,
0.144 mmol), and finally with 2,4,6-collidine (66.5 µL, 0.503 mmol) that was freshly dried over activated 4Å molecular
sieves. Both solutions were stirred at rt overnight and then treated with few drops of 1M NaOH aqueous solution. After
a further 6 hours stirring, the solutions were neutralized by adding a 1M HCl aqueous solution and then dialyzed and
freeze-dried. Since the 1H-NMR spectrum of both products clearly displayed the signals of residual TBA ions, a further
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purification was made by dissolving the polysaccharides in pure water (3.0 mL) and then passing the obtained solutions
through a short Dowex 50 WX8 column (H+ form, 20-50 mesh, approx. 5 cm3). Elution with pure water was continued
until pH of the eluates was neutral. The obtained solutions were then treated with 1M NaOH to adjust the pH to 12 and
then neutralized by adding 1M HCl. Dialysis and subsequent freeze-drying of the afforded polysaccharides 2b (22.0 mg)
and 2c (24.2 mg), respectively, as white waxy solids.
Preparation of polysaccharide 3
Chondroitin in free acid form (56.3 mg, 0.148 mmol) – obtained from chondroitin sodium salt as indicated above for the
preparation of 2a – was suspended in DMF (2.8 mL) that was freshly dried over activated 4Å molecular sieves. The
mixture was heated to 80°C and stirred for 3 hours, after that a clear solution was obtained. After cooling to rt, it was
treated with a,a-dimethoxytoluene (222 µL, 1.48 mmol), that was freshly dried over activated 4Å molecular sieves, and
then with a 0.21M solution of (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid in freshly dried DMF (178 µL, 37.4 µmol). After overnight
stirring at 80°C, a yellowish solution was obtained. It was cooled to rt and treated firstly with triethylamine (0.4 mL) and
then with diisopropyl ether (10 mL). The mixture was cooled to -30°C for 2 hours. A white flocculant solid was obtained.
It was isolated by centrifugation and then desiccated under vacuum overnight to afford 3 (89.0 mg) as a yellowish
amorphous solid.
Preparation of polysaccharide 4
A suspension of 3 (27.2 mg, 58.2 µmol) in freshly dried DMF (2.2 mL) was heated at 80°C. After two hours stirring, a
clear solution was obtained. It was cooled to rt and then treated with a 0.44M solution of TBTU in freshly dried DMF
(323 µL, 0.142 mmol), then with a 0.22M solution of 1 in freshly dried DMF (790 µL, 0.174 mmol), and finally with
2,4,6-collidine (93.8 µL, 0.709 mmol), that was freshly dried over activated 4Å molecular sieves. After overnight stirring
at rt, the solution was treated with diisopropyl ether (7.0 mL). A white precipitate was obtained. It was collected by
centrifugation and then desiccated under vacuum overnight to give 4 (34.8 mg).
Preparation of polysaccharide 2d
Derivative 4 (29.9 mg) was suspended in ethyl acetate (560 µL) and treated with a 0.27M solution of NaBrO3 in pure
water (560 µL, 0.151 mmol), and a 0.24M solution of Na2S2O4 in pure water (535 µL, 0.128 mmol). The mixture was
vigorously stirred at rt overnight under visible light irradiation, and then centrifuged. The supernatant was diluted with
water (25 mL) and ethyl acetate (25 mL). The aqueous phase was collected, concentrated, dialyzed and freeze-dried. The
obtained white powder (11.0 mg) was dissolved in pure water (5.0 mL) and treated with 1M HCl to adjust to pH 2. The
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solution was stirred at 50°C for 1 hour, then 1M NaOH was added to adjust to pH 12. Further stirring was conducted at
rt for 6 hours. The solution was then neutralized by adding 1M HCl, and dialyzed. Freeze-drying afforded a white solid
that was further purified by filtration through a Sep-pak C-18 cartridge to give pure 2d (7.5 mg) as a white waxy solid.
Molecular weight determination by Static Light Scattering
SLS measurements were performed with a home-made instrument composed by a Photocor compact goniometer, a SMD
6000 Laser Quantum 50 mW light source operating at 5325 Å, a photomultiplier (PMT-120-OP/B) and a correlator
(Flex02-01D) from Correlator.com. All measurements were performed at (25.00 ± 0.05) °C with temperature controlled
through the use of a thermostat bath. Stock solutions of pure chondroitin and of derivatives 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d were
prepared at 4.9 mg mL-1, 1.05 mg mL-1, 1.12 mg mL-1, 3.4 mg mL-1, and 1.24 mg mL-1, respectively. Deionized water
filtered (0.22µm) was used in all cases. The molecular weight of each compound was determined in duplicate. The mass-
average molecular weight, Mw, from the below equation was obtained:35
2
21 2 13gls
w
Rk cBc q
R M= + + (1)
where c is the sample mass concentration, B the second virial coefficient, ( )2 2 2 44ls o Ak n ( dn dc ) / N= where n0 = 1.33
is the refractive index of water, dn dc= 0.185 is the refractive index increment,36 NA is the Avogadro's number, λ is the
laser wavelength in vacuum, Rq is the excess Rayleigh ratio at 90°. The values of Rq were obtained from
( ) ( )2 20 0s s, s ,R R ,RR I I / I n / n R= where Is is the scattered intensity of the solution, Is,0 is the scattered intensity of water,
Is,R is the scattering intensity of toluene (the standard) and, nR = 1.496 and Rq,R = 2.85 10-5 cm−1 are the refractive index
and the Rayleigh ratio of toluene respectively,37 ( )4 2q n / sin( / )= and Rg is the radius of gyration.
Conformational study
A simplified model of the Thr-decorated chondroitin polysaccharide 2d with six repetitions was constructed through the
carbohydrate builder within the Glycam web server (Woods Group GLYCAM Web; Complex Carbohydrate Research
Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2005–2014; http://www.glycam.com) while the Thr residue attached to the
GlcA unit was constructed employing the builder module in the Maestro package of the Schroedinger Suite 2014.
Restrained simulated annealing (SA) calculations were performed on polysaccharide using the AMBER 14.0 package38
with sugars described by the latest GLYCAM06 force field (GLYCAM_06j-1).39 Parameters for Thr residue were
retrieved from the ff14sb force field within the AMBER 14.0 package as well as missing bond parameters. For annealing
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simulations, the General Born solvation (igb = 2) with monovalent salt concentration corresponding to 0.1 M was used.
The complex was heated to 600 K in the first 5 ps, cooled to 100 K for the next 13 ps, and then cooled to 0 K for the last
2 ps. The temperature of the system was maintained with a varying time constant: 0.4 ps during heating, 4 ps during
cooling to 100 K, 1 ps for the final cooling stage, and then reduced from 0.1–0.05 for the last picosecond. The force
constants for NOE constraints were increased from 3 to 30 kcal mol–1 Å–2 during the first 5 ps and then maintained
constant for the rest of the simulation. These force constants were applied in the form of a parabolic, flat-well energy
term. The upper distance bounds were retrieved by NOE cross-peak volume integrations performed with the program
iNMR (www.inmr.net), using the NOESY experiment collected at mixing time of 100 ms. The NOE volumes were then
converted to distance restraints after they were calibrated using the known fixed distance (H-6a/H-6b of GalNAc). An
unrestrained energy minimization step completed the SA run. This SA/energy minimization procedure was repeated 400
times. SA simulations were then analysed by clustering the resulting polysaccharide 2d conformations through the
average linkage method and a cluster member cutoff of 1.5 Å root-mean-squared difference (rmsd) calculated on the
sugars rings atoms belonging to the central four dimers. This clustering allowed selecting 38 different conformational
clusters for which the most populate one had a frequency of occurrence of 110/400 conformations. Moreover,
conformations of this latter cluster feature the lowest overall potential energy and NMR restraint violations. Thus, the
representative structure (i.e., the closest to the centroid of the cluster) of this cluster was considered for subsequent
molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. After charge neutralization by the addition of 6 Na+ ions, the complex was
solvated with 9381 water molecules in a truncated octahedral box of pre-equilibrated TIP3P water.40 Several equilibration
steps were performed comprising minimization of the solvent molecules with the polysaccharide fixed, minimization of
the whole system, and slow heating to 300 K with weak positional restraints on M1 atoms under constant-volume
conditions. The following 20 ns production runs were applied in the NPT ensemble. The particle mesh Ewald method41,42
was used to evaluate the electrostatic interactions with a direct space sum cutoff of 10 Å. With the bond lengths involving
hydrogen atoms kept fixed with the SHAKE algorithm, a time step of 2 fs was employed.43 Related conformational
substates populated during the MD simulation were analyzed with the AMBERS’s PTRAJ module.44 To investigate the
thermodynamic parameters of the water molecules around the polysaccharide, the GIST program included in cpptraj
module in AMBER 14 was used.45 We set the GIST grid size to 0.75 Å3, and set the GIST analysis region to cover the
whole polysaccharide structure. The box sizes were 90 × 90 × 90 Å3. Illustrations of the structures were generated using
Chimera.46
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Ice Recrystallization Inhibition activity
IRI activity was measured using a modified splay assay.47 A 10 µL sample of polysaccharide or polymer dissolved in
PBS buffer (pH 7.4) was dropped onto a chilled glass coverslip set on a piece of polished aluminium placed on dry ice.
Upon hitting the chilled glass coverslip, a wafer with diameter of approximately 10 mm and thickness 10 µm was formed
instantaneously. The glass coverslip was transferred onto the Linkam cryostage and held at −8 °C under N2 for 30 minutes.
Photographs were obtained using an Olympus CX 41 microscope with a UIS-2 20×/0.45/∞/0–2/FN22 lens and crossed
polarizers (Olympus Ltd, Southend on sea, UK), equipped with a Canon DSLR 500D digital camera. Images were taken
of the initial wafer (to ensure that a polycrystalline sample had been obtained) and after 30 minutes. Image processing
was conducted using Image J, which is freely available. In brief, ten of the largest ice crystals in the field of view were
measured and the single largest length in any axis recorded. This was repeated for at least three wafers and the average
(mean) value was calculated to find the largest grain dimension along any axis. The average of this value from three
individual wafers was calculated to give the mean largest grain size (MLGS). This average value was then compared to
that of a PBS buffer negative control providing a way of quantifying the amount of IRI activity. This testing method
ensures that positive results are only reported if all ice crystals are inhibited, as opposed to an average per wafer estimation,
which would smooth out the presence of rouge ice crystal growth.
Results and Discussion
Several different carboxylic acid activators have been developed for amide bond formation. By limiting to the most
common ones, they can be classified according to their structure into phosphonium and uronium/guanidinium salts,
carbodiimides, and triazines.48,49 Amidation of GlcA units of CS was performed in all reported cases with carbodiimide
reagents such as water-soluble N-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)-N′-ethylcarbodiimide (EDC) or, more rarely,
dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC), with or without a protic additive such as 1-hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) or N-
hydroxysuccinimide (NHS).10 Hyaluronic acid – the only unsulfated GAG found in animal tissues – was coupled with
amines using not only carbodiimide activators of GlcA carboxylic acid but also in the presence of triazine species.
Nonetheless, variable DSs, very often rather far from a quantitative value, were obtained.50 Our first attempt to decorate
unsulfated chondroitin with Thr was made by reaction of the polysaccharide with Thr methyl ester 151 in the presence of
EDC and NHS in 4-morpholineethanesulfonic acid (MES) buffered water (pH = 6) (Scheme 1). After overnight reaction
at rt, ester cleavage was conducted in one pot by adding sodium hydroxide. Dialysis and subsequent freeze-drying
furnished polysaccharide 2a in 86% mass yield, that was subjected to 1H NMR analysis for evaluation of Thr amide DS.
By integration of the CH3 signal of Thr residue (d 1.20 ppm) with respect to that of the acetyl (d 2.01 ppm), a 0.14 DS
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Scheme 1: Decoration of chondroitin polysaccharide with Thr amides
value was obtained (Figure 2). In order to enhance DS different carboxylic acid activation conditions were then tested.
Since amide couplings in solution with either phosphonium or uronium/guanidium salts are usually performed in DMF,
chondroitin was firstly converted into its tetrabutylammonium (TBA) salt according to a known procedure using aqueous
TBAOH,34 in order to enhance its solubility in such solvent. A clear solution of chondroitin-TBA salt in DMF was then
treated at rt with a phosphonium salt activator such as (benzotriazol-1-yloxy)tripyrrolidinophosphonium
hexafluorophosphate (pyBOP®) in the presence of HOBt and N,N-diisopropylethylamine (DIPEA) as a base.
Alternatively, the amide coupling was conducted with an uronium salt activator such as O-(benzotriazol-1-yl)-N,N,N′,N′-
tetramethyluronium tetrafluoroborate (TBTU) and 2,4,6-collidine as base. After one-pot cleavage of Thr methyl ester,
dialysis, and freeze-drying, integration of 1H-NMR signals allowed DS evaluation of the obtained polysaccharides. In
pyBOP®/HOBt case (2b, Scheme 1) only a slight increase of DS (0.19) with respect to EDC/NHS reaction was observed,
whereas a much significant enhancement was obtained for polysaccharide 2c (DS = 0.43), nonetheless the coupling
reaction was still very far from affording a quantitative Thr decoration.
It was hypothesized that low DS values could be due to a strong network of hydrogen bonds between carboxylic acid and
hydroxyl moieties of chondroitin, that should be rather effective especially in an aprotic solvent such as DMF. This could
impede the activation of carboxylic acids in every GlcA unit of the polysaccharide chain. To minimize this effect, the
protection of some hydroxyl groups of chondroitin was planned. A benzylidene ring was installed at 4,6-diol of GalNAc
units by reaction with a,a-dimethoxytoluene in the presence of (+)-camphor-10-sulfonic acid (CSA) as an acid catalyst.29
Exhaustive protection of all GalNAc 4,6-diols of the polymer chain (DS = 1.00) was demonstrated by relative integration
of the benzylidene methine proton (d = 5.53 ppm) and acetyl (d = 1.76 ppm) signals in the 1H NMR spectrum of the
protected polysaccharide 3 (see Supporting Information). This chondroitin derivative was then
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Figure 2: 1H-NMR spectra (600 MHz, D2O, 298K) of polysaccharides 2a-d (I = Integral area)
subjected to amide coupling with 1 under the activation condition that performed best on the unprotected polysaccharide
(TBTU/2,4,6-collidine). By addition of diisopropyl ether to the reaction mixture, polysaccharide 4 could be isolated by
precipitation. Its 1H-NMR spectrum could not give an exact DS evaluation, as methyl signal of linked Thr amide moiety
(d = 1.09 ppm) partially overlapped with the same kind of signal from free Thr amine 1 (d = 1.02 ppm), that co-precipitated
with 4 (see Supporting Information). A two step deprotection of 4 was performed by firstly treating it with NaBrO3 and
Na2S2O4 in H2O-ethyl acetate mixture to cleave oxidatively the benzylidene ring52 and give, either at position O-4 or O-
6 of GalNAc units, Bz esters,29 that were then hydrolysed under alkaline aqueous conditions together with Thr methyl
ester to afford polysaccharide 2d. To our delight, integration of its 1H-NMR spectrum showed a quantitative decoration
(DS = 1.00) of GlcA with Thr amides (Figure 2). Attribution of chemical shift values of polysaccharide 2d (Table 1) was
possible by analysis of 13C and two-dimensional NMR spectra (COSY, TOCSY, NOESY, HSQC-DEPT) (Figure 3 and
Supporting Information) and their comparison with the data reported in the literature for unsulfated chondroitin.53 In
particular, the density at dH/C 4.21/61.0 ppm in the HSQC-DEPT spectrum could be associated to the CH group at position
a of Thr units linked through an amide bond to GlcA carboxylic moieties.
Table 1: 1H (plain) and 13C NMR (italic) chemical shift attribution of 2da,b
2a
2b
2c
2d I = 1.00
I = 1.00
I = 1.00
I = 1.00
I = 1.00
I = 0.43
I = 0.19
I = 0.14
acetone
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GlcA GalNAc Thr
1 4.62 105.0
4.42 100.0
a 4.21 61.7
2 3.35 72.9
3.99 51.6
b 4.30 68.4
3 3.62 74.2
3.80 81.6
g 1.20 19.9
4 3.94 77.1
4.07 74.5
other signals
COOH: 176.9
5 4.05 68.7
3.60 75.6
6 -- 170.3
3.67-3.76 61.7
other signals
--
NHCOCH3: 175.7
NHCOCH3: 2.01, 23.1
a NMR experiments conducted in D2O (600 MHz, 298 K). b Chemical shifts expressed in d relative to internal acetone
[1H: (CH3)2CO, δ = 2.22 ppm; 13C: (CH3)2CO, δ = 30.9 ppm]
Figure 3: 1H and HSQC-DEPT NMR spectra of polysaccharide 2d
(600 MHz, D2O, 298K; CH and CH3 signals in black colour, CH2 signal in red colour)
The mass-average molecular weight of the starting chondroitin and of the semi-synthetic polysaccharides 2a-2d was
determined by means of the Static Light Scattering (SLS) through the Zimm plot,35 affording values of 41.0 ± 2.0, 37.2 ±
1.9, 35.1 ± 1.8, 22.4 ± 1.1, and 16.9 ± 0.9 Kg mol-1, respectively. In Figure 4 the Zimm plot for 2c is reported (see also
Supporting Information). It is worth noting that, in spite of a molecular weight decrease observed for all the semi-synthetic
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derivatives, in no case was the polysaccharide reduced from the original degree of polymerization (DP) of approx. 102 ±
5 to less than 34 ± 2, as calculated with disaccharide repeating unit molecular mass values of 401 and 502 g mol-1 for the
starting chondroitin and the fully decorated Thr derivative 2d, respectively. This demonstrated that the polysaccharide
structure of chondroitin was conserved for derivatives 2a-2d, even if a polymer chain shortening was detected in all cases.
The highest shortening was observed for polysaccharide 2d, as expected from the higher number of semi-synthetic steps
required for its production with respect to 2a-2c cases. In particular, the first step towards 2d was a benzylidene ring
installation on GalNAc O-4,6-diol (Scheme 1), requiring a high reaction temperature (80°C) and an acid catalyst such as
CSA. Such conditions could break the glycosidic linkages of the chondroitin polysaccharide in a non negligible amount.
Figure 4: Zimm plot for the molecular weight determination of 2c
With the aim of determining the three-dimensional arrangement of the fully Thr-decorated polysaccharide 2d, an in-depth
analysis of the NMR was performed. The NOE connectivities in the NOESY spectra between 1,3-diaxial protons [H-1/H-
3/H-5 and H-2/H-4 for GlcA(Thr) and H-1/H-3/H-5 for GalNAc], unambiguously indicated that both sugar moieties
assume the classical 4C1 chair conformation. NOESY spectra also showed interesting inter-residue NOEs that were
diagnostic for the determination of the spatial evolution of the polysaccharide. Particularly, strong NOEs between H-1 of
GlcA(Thr) and H-3 of GalNAc, and between H-1 of GalNAc and H-4 of GlcA(Thr) indicated the relative spatial
orientation of the sugars. The lack of long-range NOEs suggested that the overall structure of the polysaccharide is fairly
linear. This structural information was employed to construct a simplified model of the semi-synthetic chondroitin
polysaccharide [made up by six repetitions of the GlcA(Thr)-GalNAc disaccharide subunit] through NMR-restrained
simulated annealing (SA) calculations. An ensemble of 400 isoenergetic structures was calculated featuring for all the
considered distances a maximum violation of 0.12 Å. Subsequently, different conformations of this ensemble were
clustered considering the position of the sugar ring atoms belonging to the central 4 disaccharide subunits with a root-
mean-squared difference (rmsd) value of 1.5 Å. Clustering of the obtained 400 conformations resulted in 38 different
conformational families among which cluster 3 represented the 25% of the total ensemble demonstrating a good
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convergence of our calculations toward a well-defined structure. For this cluster, the representative conformation was
considered (i.e. the one closest to the centroid of the cluster) for further 310 K molecular dynamics (MD) simulations
aimed at inspecting the thermodynamic stability in explicit solvent. From these calculations (NMR-restrained SA and
MD simulations), it was clear that the structure adopts a fairly linear conformation which is stable over time as
demonstrated by plotting of the rmsd values during the last 10 ns of the production run. This conformation is stabilized
by the formation of a series of inter-residue H-bond interactions, which are reasonably well conserved along the
polysaccharide structure (Figure 5). Interestingly, a comparison between the calculated structure of 2d and the published
NMR solution structure of unsulfated chondroitin54 (Figure 5D) reveals that the two structures are basically
superimposable with no major differences in the overall conformation, thereby outlining that decoration with Thr does
not induce conformational changes with respect to the unsubstituted chondroitin polysaccharide. In particular, the
calculated conformation of 2d does recall neither the “zigzag” arrangement of the C. psychrerythraea Thr-decorated
CPS22 nor the helical conformation very recently detected for the exopolysaccharide (EPS) secreted by the same bacteria
and displaying alanine (Ala) amide groups on GalA units.23 Interestingly, the presence of a pseudo-helical conformation
in EPS allowed entrapping water molecules in discrete clefts, where no tetrahedral arrangement was detected thereby
disfavouring the formation of ice crystals. From these considerations, it might be suggested that the linear structure of the
semi-synthetic Thr-decorated chondroitin polysaccharide 2d might not be conducive to ice recrystallization inhibition
activity.
To confirm this, IRI activity was measured. IRI has been linked to survival in frozen environments and compounds which
display IRI activity can enhance cellular cryopreservation by reducing ice growth during freezing.55 In order to test the
IRI activity, a modified ‘splat’ assay was used.47 Briefly, 10 µL droplets of the polysaccharide in PBS was dropped down
a tube onto a cooled (~−70 °C) glass cover slip, and then transferred to a microscope set at −8 °C. After 30 min, the mean
largest grain size (MLGS) was measured and reported relative to a PBS control. It is important to note that in this assay,
MLGS values below ~ 20% indicate zero growth (as the initial crystals cannot have zero size). The IRI activity of the
polysaccharides is reported in Figure 6 alongside a negative control (PEG) and another polysaccharide, dextran (MW ~
40 kg.mol-1). Compared to PEG, the polysaccharides do have some IRI activity, reducing the grain size by up to 40 %
compared to PBS alone. It is important to note that very few macromolecules have this activity, even weak, and the
magnitude is compared to poly(ampholytes) which are an emerging class of macromolecular cryoprotectants.56,57
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Figure 5. Front (A) and zoomed (B) view of the representative structure of the inspected polysaccharide as calculated by
restrained SA calculations. GlcA(Thr) and GalNAc are represented as green and purple sticks. H-bonds are represented
as dashed blue lines. C) rmsd fluctuations of the studied of the polysaccharide heavy atoms, along the last 10 ns of the
MD simulation with respect to the conformation reported in (A). D) Superimposition between the structure of inspected
polysaccharide 2d, as calculated by restrained SA calculations (green sticks), and the published solution structure of
unsulfated chondroitin54 (orange sticks, PDB 2KQO).
The activity seems similar to dextran, which is only a weak ice recrystallization inhibitor. Interestingly, there is a trend
that as the threonine content increases, the IRI activity is reduced and in un-modified chondroitin, the IRI activity is less
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than for the threonine decorated samples. This could be associated to the slight decrease of the molecular weight measured
from polysaccharide 2b (DSThr = 0.19, Mw 35 ± 2 kg mol-1) to 2c (DSThr = 0.43, Mw 22 ± 1 kg mol-1) and then 2d (DSThr
= 1.00, Mw 17 ± 1 kg mol-1). Indeed, it should be noted that IRI activity has been observed in nearly all systems to increase
with molecular weight.58 Although there have been several examples of Thr- and/or Ala-rich (glyco)proteins and
polysaccharides acting as antifreeze agents in Nature,22,58,59 it is clear from these data that Thr decorations alone is
insufficient for introduce potent IRI activity, or that the precise sequence/location of the threonine units in naturally-
occurring complex polysaccharides might be different to these semi-synthetic analogues. Also, increasing the
hydrophobicity (i.e. more threonine) alone is not enough to enhance IRI activity, in line with observations on synthetic
polymers.26,56 We did not seen any clear trends in relationship to the effect of MW, but a wider range of sampels would
be required to draw further conclusions on this.
Figure 6. IRI activity of the polysaccharides 2a, 2b, 2c, and 2d (0.14, 0.19, 0.43 and 1.00 indicate their DSs of Thr
amidation), chondroitin, PEG (negative control) and dextran (positive control). MLGS is expressed as a percentage of
PBS buffer, and small MLGS values indicate increased IRI activity
Conclusions
In this work a microbial sourced chondroitin polysaccharide was decorated with Thr amides at its carboxylic acid
moieties, in order to obtain a semi-synthetic mimic of the CPS from C. psychrerythraea. To this aim, several amide
coupling conditions were screened in order to obtain a quantitative DS for Thr decoration. By performing the reaction on
underivatized chondroitin rather low DSs (0.14-0.43) were obtained whichever the kind of carboxylic acid activator
(carbodiimide-, phosphonium- or uronium-type) was employed, whereas a quantitative DS could be gained by performing
the reaction on a partially protected polysaccharide derivative. This result was ascribed to a weakening of the hydrogen
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bond network acting in DMF – the solvent used for the amidation reaction – after masking some hydroxyls of the
polysaccharide with the protecting groups.
The three-dimensional arrangement of the Thr-decorated polysaccharide was then investigated by NOESY NMR and SA
and MD simulations, determining a stable, fairly linear conformation. This was rather different from the “zigzag”
arrangement determined for the CPS from C. psychrerythraea.22 This difference explained the much lower IRI activity
measured for the semi-synthetic polysaccharide with respect to the natural one. Indeed, the absence of discrete clefts in
the linear structure of the former does not allow the entrapment of water molecules in a non tetrahedral arrangement in
the first hydration shell, that disfavors the formation of ice crystals. Therefore, this work demonstrates that in spite of
several examples of Thr- and/or Ala-rich (glyco)proteins and polysaccharides having some ice recrystallization inhibition
activity,22,59,60 the incorporation of more threonine, and hence increasing hydrophobicity, does not increase the magnitude
of the ice recrystallization inhibition activity despite the apparent role of related polysaccharides in cryoprotection.
However, it is worth noting that also the presence of a polysaccharide structure with discrete clefts such as in a pseudo-
helical conformation has been recently demonstrated to be not a sufficient condition alone for IRI activity. Indeed, a very
recently discovered Thr/Ala free CPS, still isolated from C. psychrerythraea and displaying a helical structure, does not
show any IRI activity.61 All these findings will help future investigations towards the development of (semi-) synthetic
polymer mimics of natural antifreeze agents to be applied in the cryopreservation field.
Supporting Information
The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website. Copies of 1D- and 2D-
NMR spectra and Zimm plots for the molecular weight determination of the polysaccharides.
Acknowledgments
Chondroitin sodium salt was a kind gift from Prof. Chiara Schiraldi (Department of Experimental Medicine, Second
University of Naples). M.I.G. acknowledges the ERC for a Starter Grant (CRYOMAT 638661).
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